COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Springs Police are asking for help finding the driver of a pick-up truck who they believe hit and seriously injured a bicyclist at the intersection of San Miguel Street and El Paso Street on Friday night. The accident happened around 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 5. Police said the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Monday, family and friends held a private memorial at New Life Church for the four members of the Kreb family who died from an apparent murder-suicide. On Oct. 30, the El Paso County Sheriff found 50-year-old Yvette M. Siegert-Kreb, 13-year-old Felicity Kreb, and 9-year-old Barret Kreb dead. Investigators identified Christof
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On November 6th, Timothy Cheasebro was working the overnight shift at a 7-Eleven convenience store on Astrozon Boulevard in Colorado Springs. Just before midnight, a man walked in and demanded for money out of the register. After noting that the robber was not armed, Cheasebro walked away and through a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The man facing charges after allegedly strangling a 9-year-old patient in August faced another abuse complaint roughly a year before the incident. Brian Schaffer’s behavioral analyst license was censured in Arizona in 2020 after an incident where Schaffer was “observed conducting overly aggressive and restrictive behavior” with a four-year-old boy
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Michael Riedell is still holding out hope that his little sister’s murder will one day be solved. Her school friends remember Melissa “Missy” Riedell of Colorado Springs as a genuine and magnetic girl who just wanted to be liked. She transferred to a few different schools, just trying to fit
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A student at Sierra High School was taken into custody after lighting a flare inside a classroom. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, a fire alarm was activated at 8:10 a.m. Thursday. A School Resource Officer responded to the classroom where the smoke was reportedly coming from. Once in
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– The family of a woman who was shot and killed by a motorcyclist after a road rage incident is looking for answers. Saturday, 32-year-old Jessica Maez was driving with her husband Matthew back from a family barbecue on Academy Boulevard. Matthew says they were cut off repeatedly by a man driving
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Springs Police need the public’s help to identify the rider of a yellow dirt bike, suspected of shooting into a car — hitting a man and woman. The woman died of her injuries. The violence unfolded at 5:20 p.m. on Saturday evening, November 6th, in the 3600 block of
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office released a description of a suspect vehicle involved in a shooting that happened in unincorporated El Paso County. Saturday, officers with the Colorado Springs Police Department responded to a report that a “juvenile” gunshot victim was at a local hospital. After a preliminary
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As Roberto Charles recovers in the hospital, his family is scrambling to keep his wife away from them after police say she hit her husband with a truck. Christina Charles is facing several charges, including first-degree attempted murder, after Fountain Police say she hit her husband with a truck and
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Colorado man who called himself an idiot for twice entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been sentenced to 90 days of home detention. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday also ordered Glenn Wes Lee Croy to spend 14 days in a community correctional facility,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Thursday, investigators with the Colorado Springs Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested a man on crimes related to the sexual exploitation of children. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, investigators executed a search warrant in the 2300 block of North Franklin Street at 11 a.m. During the search,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department arrested two suspects connected to multiple robberies across the city. Throughout October, two suspects robbed six businesses. According to CSPD, the suspect would display a weapon and often lead the victim around the store while making demands. Oct. 21, the CSPD Tactical Enforcement Unit arrested
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department is searching for the victims involved in a shooting. October 28, officers responded to a call about a man firing into an occupied vehicle in a parking lot on 1600 South Nevada Ave. Police found the suspect near Hunter Ave. and South Corona Ave. According
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a suspect in a Sexual Assault on a Child case. In September, detectives with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Special Victim’s Unit arrested 31-year-old Roger Brandon Abeyta. According to detectives, Abeyta was using social media platforms to contact and
Continue Reading EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is searching for the driver of a pickup truck who rammed into a sergeant’s patrol car. Monday, an EPSO sergeant was investigating a suspicious vehicle parked in a construction area in the Cimarron Hills area just before 1 a.m. According to the EPCSO,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Two men are dead following a shooting on the east side of Colorado Springs, not far from the airport, according to Colorado Springs Police. Officers were responding to a report of a shooting in the area on the 4000 block of Fountain Springs Grove. When they arrived they found the two
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SOUTHERN COLORADO (KRDO) — Colorado Springs Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man and woman they say stole an SUV, and used the same victim’s credit cards to go on a shopping spree. The 2012 Ford Focus was stolen on September 20th, 2021 from a garage on Whimsical Drive, west of
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a drive-by shooting after deputies received several calls about multiple gunshots near Mesa Ridge Pkwy on Friday, Oct. 22. According to the press release, at 8:41 p.m. dispatch received several calls reporting multiple gunshots in the 600 block of Empress Circle.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado is advocating for the Colorado Springs City Council to pass an ordinance regulating massage businesses to fight human trafficking. Over the weekend, the group held their annual symposium, which focused on the nearly three dozen illicit massage businesses in Colorado Springs first
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